Other people's English: code-meshing, code-switching, and African American literacy

Introduction: Are you a part of the conversation?

Part 1: African American English and the promise of code-meshing / Rusty Barrett. Rewarding language : language ideology and prescriptive grammar ; You are what you speak : language variation, identity, and education ; Be yourself somewhere else : what's wrong with keeping undervalued English out of the classroom?

Part 2: Code-meshing or code-switching? / Vershawn Ashanti Young. Linguistic double consciousness ; The costs of code-switching ; Code-meshing : the new way to do English

Part 3: Code-meshing and responsible education in two middle school classrooms / Y'Shanda Young-Rivera. Code-meshing and responsible education ; Reimagining the classroom : code-meshing and the 21st-century student ; Making sense of it all : Code-meshing and educational reform

Part 4: Code-meshing and culturally relevant pedagogy for college writing instruction / Kim Brian Lovejoy. Code-meshing : teachers and students creating community ; Code-meshing through self-directed writing ; Composing code-meshing : thoughts on what to do and how to do it

Coda: The power of language.